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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Nicole "Coley" Curry and Becky Renfrow, Ames Hawkins, & Mamta Popat

www.trickhouse.org Trickhouse Live is curated by TC Tolbert, Assistant Director of Casa Libre.

Tuesday, March 10
7-9 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation

in·te·gra·tive adj \ˈ in-tə- ˌ grā-tiv\
combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole

Trickhouse Live is an integrative arts series that brings together people working with words, images, sounds, videos, and a variety of performances. The series serves as a venue for visiting artists to interact with local artists and for the borders between genres and mediums to be permeable. Trickhouse Live is a physical world extension of the online cross-genre arts journal, Trickhouse.org which is based in Tucson.

Performer Bio

Nicole "Coley" Curry is a movement artist and wanderer. She likes sharing stories, drawing arrows and stretching. In her movement she likes exploring subtleties, contradictions and collages. She has recently arrived back in Tucson and is teaching classes at BreakOut Studios, come by and dance with her anytime.

Becky Renfrow is a creative facilitator, counselor-in-training, juggler, acrobat, and professional fool. Her performance work incorporates circus arts, playful movement, spoken words, and audience participation to inspire reflection and delight. Based in Tucson, she is committed to cultivating collective wellbeing in her communities through critical dialogue, rebellious action, artful levity, and expressions of love.

 

 

Ames Hawkins is a writer, educator, and art activist. An Associate Professor in the Department of English at Columbia College Chicago, and practitioner of collaboration as a radical act, Ames teaches and co-teaches courses in First Year Writing, First Year Seminar, Cultural Studies, and Creative Nonficition. Ames uses writing and art to explore the interstices of text and image, theorizing the power and pleasure of queer(ing) form; her most recent creative and critical work appears in Computers and Composition Online, Slag Glass City, The Feminist Wire, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Water~Stone Review. She served as curator and co-editor of the Lambda Literary Foundations 25th Anniversary 2103 eBook Collection, 25 for 25: An Anthology of Works by 25 Outstanding Contemporary Authors and Those They Inspired. A current recipient of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Faculty Fellowship, Ames is working on the installation/book project, These Are Love Letters: e, l, o, r, s, t, v. Ames also enjoys getting work off the page and onto the stage and has engaged in drag/queer/story performance in Chicago with Genderfusions, Northern Lights, and Second Story.

 

Mamta Popat has spent more than a decade freezing her fingers to the bone, or sweltering under the desert sun — all in her quest to tell the stories of the people who have made Ithaca, New York or Tucson, Arizona their home. Mamta has lived the last 11 years in the Sonoran Desert city of Tucson. Here, she captures daily life, portraits, sports and stories that have earned her national and state recognition from her peers. Awards in annual competitions include National Press Photographer’s Association, New York Newspaper Publishers Association, New York State Associated Press Association, Arizona Press Club, Best of the West, Arizona Newspapers Association and a Lee Enterprises President’s Award. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY and many others. Mamta currently works as a full-time photojournalist for the Arizona Daily Star. For Trickhouse Live she will talk about combining fine art photography with photojournalism in order to tell the story.

 

 

 

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